v. 给…传授花粉( pollinate的第三人称单数 );
[例句] Many of the indigenous insects are needed to pollinate the local plants.
v. 预示( portend的现在分词 ),预兆,给…以警告,预告;
[例句] The change did not portend a basic improvement in social conditions.
n. 总统的职位( presidency的名词复数 ),总统的任期;
[例句] Britain will support him as a candidate for the presidency of the organisation...
[例句] Poverty had declined during his presidency.
v. 校对,校勘( proofread的第三人称单数 ),做校对工作;
[例句] I didn't even have the chance to proofread my own report.
n. 赞美( panegyric的名词复数 ),称颂,颂词,颂扬的演讲或文章;
[例句] ...Prince Charles's panegyric on rural living.
n. (古罗马或希腊的)万神庙( pantheon的名词复数 ),(一国或一民族信奉的)众神,先贤祠,伟人祠;
[例句] ...the birthplace of Krishna, another god of the Hindu pantheon.
[例句] ...the Communist Party's pantheon of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.
v. 列举( particularize的现在分词 ),逐一叙述,详述,特别指出;
[例句] Mr Johnson particularizes the general points he wants to make...
[例句] A farmer is entitled to a certain particularized tax treatment.
n. 教师,卖弄学问的教师( pedagogue的名词复数 );
[例句] De Gaulle was a born pedagogue who used the public platform and the television screen to great effect.
v. 对…予以惩罚( penalize的现在分词 ),使处于不利地位;
[例句] Some of the players may, on occasion, break the rules and be penalized...
[例句] Use of the car is penalized by increasing the fares of parking lots...
v. 对…予以惩罚( penalize的第三人称单数 ),使处于不利地位;
[例句] Some of the players may, on occasion, break the rules and be penalized...
[例句] Use of the car is penalized by increasing the fares of parking lots...
v. 发假誓,作伪证( perjure的第三人称单数 );
[例句] Witnesses lied and perjured themselves...
[例句] She would rather perjure herself than admit to her sins.
v. 读(某篇文字)( peruse的第三人称单数 ),(尤指)细阅,审阅,匆匆读或心不在焉地浏览(某篇文字);
[例句] We perused the company's financial statements for the past five years...
[例句] She found the information while she was perusing a copy of Life magazine.
v. 偷窃(小东西),小偷( pilfer的第三人称单数 ),偷窃(一般指小偷小摸);
[例句] Staff were pilfering behind the bar...
[例句] When food stores close, they go to work, pilfering food for resale on the black market.
n. 少量( pittance的名词复数 ),少许,微薄的工资,少量的收入;
[例句] Her secretaries work tirelessly for a pittance.
v. 安抚,抚慰,使平静( placate的过去式和过去分词 );
[例句] He smiled, trying to placate me...
[例句] 'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice.
v. 安抚,抚慰,使平静( placate的第三人称单数 );
[例句] He smiled, trying to placate me...
[例句] 'I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice.
n. 富豪统治,财阀统治( plutocracy的名词复数 ),富豪[财阀]统治集团,富豪,财阀;
[例句] Financial, not moral, considerations will prevail in a plutocracy.
n. 装腔作势的人( poseur的名词复数 );
[例句] I am sometimes accused of being an inveterate poseur.
v. 预示,预兆( prefigure的第三人称单数 );
[例句] The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany.
n. (对不祥事物的)预感( presentiment的名词复数 );
[例句] I had a presentiment that he represented a danger to me...
[例句] He had a presentiment of disaster.